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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4366, 13 March 1893, Page 2

Mr Fleming, assißtant at Mr Geo, Johnston's Queen Street store, was rather badly kicked by a horse on Satur jday afternoon. He was going into the stable, when a rattling noise frightened ono of the animals, oausing It to kick out and catch Mr Fleming on tho breast, bruising him severely, He had just been unfortunate enough to have a smash up with a horse through a sheet of iron Mowing down and causing it to bolt, the cart and harness being badly damaged. We very much regret to have to record tho death of MrT, Brown, senior, of the Taueru Hotel, whfoh occurred yesterday morning after a BhoH illnesß. Mr Brown trayollnd to Wellington last week and on the return journey was taken ill, He reached his home, but rapidly got worso and, as stated, died on Sunday morning His sudden death comes as a great shook to his Wii'o and family and a large circle ot friends, by whom his loss will be deeply and sincerely regretted, Yesterday (Sunday), contrary to all expectations, turned out beautifully fine, and a vory large number of people visited the Waimjawa and Ruamahunga itivers, which had, however, again be* come insignificant streams.

A sad calamity is 'reported from Wagga, New Bouth Wales. Three girls, agod respectively thirteen, eleven, and nine, the daughters of a boundary rider named Alex. Morrison, were bathing in the Murrumbidgeo river, when tho youngest child, getting out of her depth, the sisters went to save her, and all three lost their livos,

It is announced, on the authority of tho JiHfepeiuface Bdge, that the North Belgian Company and the North of France Railway aro constructing a line for locomotives worked by electricity, which will perform the journey from Biusselsto Paris-abuut 192 miles-in the phenomoiial time of eighty minutes, a spaed of nearly 150 miles an hour, The trains, it is stated, will be ready for running in about t«o months,

Messrs J, CMcKerrow and Co., the well and favourably known Land and Estate Agents, of Grey and Featherston streets, Wellington, undertake every description of land and estate tran» aactions which from a long and varied experience, they are enabled to perform to the complete satisfaction of their numerous olients, The firm is too well known in this distriot to need any recommendation, but we would state that Messrs J. 0. McKorrow and Co, will be pleased to hear from clients in the Wairarapa who may be desirous of purchasing or Belling land, as they have at all times a goodly array of purchasers and sellers on their books.

In confirmation of the privato account of the deserted Panama Canal works, a different correspondent sends the London Daily Timeß this extract from another private letter : " While in Colon last voyage I made a careful tour of the Panama bogie, and the stores, enginesheds, rolling and floating stock. Words cannot paint my astonishment at the sight. 1 never saw anything so sinful in my life as to see all that stuff going to rack and ruin, 1 went, through one of the 1 Btores '—of these there are six in all, at different places—bigger thau any shipyard on the Olyde could boast j all the things just as they came from the makers. Files never unpacked, every engineor'stool you can think ot—English, French, American were thero, Whitworth stocks, dies and taps, about twenty cases complete, good as when they loft the shop, I walked for a mile over the only roadway passable along the canal sideviz , tho top of a train of eight wheel bogie freight waggons, all sinking in, tue wheels disappeared in tropical undergrowth. All around is swampy ground and all those waggons rotting beneath thatblazingsun, Enginesteam eheda full of fino powerful engines, the sheds overrun and inhabited now by snakes and their prey, the lizard; while the six foot is full of land crab holes, I saw eight fine large marine boilers, just as tbey had been discharged from the P.M. cargo boot that brought them over, and the complete parts of a set of a big compomarlne engine about 1000 h.p., lying on the shore, never been used, never fitted in. I saw dry docks splendidly built and equipped with fine expensive pumping plant. And why say more? Poor old HeLesseps' house on the point looks very melanoholy." The great sea-serpent has turned up again; says the English Mechanic—this time in a form of reminiscence, There seems to be some doubt whether there is ono or more; but it is a pity that eorao of those who havo seen it never managed to capture it or put a shot through its head- the roost natural thing for tho socalled sporting men to do. Dr W. H. Russell seems te think that the late Sir Richard Owen would not have been con» vincod, beoaußn he said, "Well, well, if you told mo you had seon men 7ft or Bft high 1 would believe you; but I fear I could not aocept a statement from you that you had seen men 78ft or 80ft in height." Dr Russell concludes that" in tho present state of public opinion regarding the existence of the sea-serpent, witnesses to the truth are readily discouraged." He himself at one time had a number of Kb scales, ''about the size and shape of a scaflop shell" j but when ho wanted them to show Professor Owen, he could not find them. However, ho says that f'even the scales would not have convinced" Owen, Most likely not; but Mr J. S. Sewill pointsout that Owen described the Pal. Soc. Trans, the vertobra of a serpent found in tho eocene bods )f Braokleshara, which ho concluded had a marine habitat, and a probable length of considerably over 20ft, There may be ophidian reptiles of which we have no knowledge, and even Plesioeauri, but the groat sea serpent will not be believed in until ho is landed and exhibited,

The Royal Humane Society has never had before it a parallel to the foafc of Thomas M'Dermott, chief boatswain of H.M.B. Swallow, whose name was submitted by the Admiralty. He was in charge of a boat upon the coast of Zanzibar, with four seamen. Two of thorn went overboard to bathe. Presently a large Bhark rose and instantly attacked theßwimmeiß, Itwas butfour or five feet from one of thorn when M'Dermott leapt to the rescue, He had no weapon, apparently, but the moral effect of hisinterference sufficed, Tho Bhark was gliding within reach of a goodjump, and M'Dermott alighted "righton top of it," It such an action be new to tho sons of men, such an experience may well have paralysed a fish. The monster sheered off, and did not recover its presence of mind until all three men had been hauled into the boat, This story is certified, after due investigation, by Hear-Admiral Bedford, 0.11., and Commander Finnis, Senior Officer, Zanzibar Division Tho Sooiety granted its silver medal.—Exchange,

"Go at 'em again I" "1 saw young Harry with his beaver on 1 "—I Hen. IV-, IV., I. Aye and with his oyes open and his bead screwed on the right way, and he went for thorn not exactly bald hcaded,but straight from tho shoulder, and the people cheered him and said go at 'em again old man, and doubtlesa he did. It was good advice and we propose to tender it to onr countless supporters in connection with our half price remnant sale. Go at 'em again wo say as hard as you can. Don't leave them till they're all gone. See that you clear the lot so that when the end conies their place shall know them no more. We want these Half Price Bargains distributed throughout the length and breadth of the land, How long will it last ? We can't say I Wo don't know I Our minds are not mado up I We're going to have a cabinet council perhaps to-day, and we'll let you all know if any decision is arrived at. In the meantime go at 'em as hard as you can, Jt might be one day, two days, perhapsthfoo, perhaps four—possibly a week. We can't say J. Wedon.tknow except it can't last long before the end cornea at any rate. Now is the tlmo to buy large),at Hooper's pall price Bemnanj Sale 11K • toil- '

The time for receiving nominations for the Easter Meeting of the Wairarapa Bacing Club has beeu extended to Tuesday March 14th at 9

A certain doan recently speaking on the nature of man as distinguished from the lower orders of creation, romarked " Man is a progressive beiug: the others ,are stationary. Think, fur example, of' the ass I Always and everywhere it is the same oreaturo, and you never saw and never will Bee a more perfect ass than you see at the prosont moment I" Tliere was a general titter,

Some German professor has discovered that an admirable substitute for soda whon washing linen consists In dissolving two pounds of soap in about three gallons of water as hot as the baud can bear, and adding to this one tablespoonful of turpentine and three of liquid ammonia, Ibis mixture must be well stirred, and the linen steeped in it for two or three hours, taking care to cover up the vessel containing thorn as nearly hermetically as possible. Tho clothes are afterwards washed out and rinsed in the usual way.

Allusion wasmadeby the Ohlef Justice at the last criminal Bessioiiß in Napier says tho Telegraph, to the desirableness of those released on probation living somewhat handy to the Probation Oflice, to whom they had to report themselves Monthly, One of the probationists then granted a license will not now be troubled much on that score for the next folr months, at any rate, because ho is in gaol.

J A man who was in a state of stupor through drink undressed himself on the ! Napier beach on Thursday, intending to have a swim. When a policeman came along he was again dressing himself, or rather trying to, having two shirt sleeves on one arm, and being in a fix generally. Ho is now in gaol.—Napier Tolegraph.

The regular quarterly convocation of the Wairarapa Hoyal Arch, N.Z.0., will take place at the Masonic Hall, Greytown this (Monday) evening, The Wellington mails of Saturday last were landed in Mastertcn early this morning, by coach from Woodville, driven through by Messrs 6. and A. Peters. They report the roads in fairly good order all through tho bush except on the hills about four or five miles this side of Eketahuna, where a portion of the road has falloo away, and again at Mangamuhoe, where there is a considerable Blip. The roau, however, is in no place impassable.

In the Nineteenth- Century, Sir Herbert Maxwell has an article answering Mrs Lynn Linton, who is lecturing the young women of the day for falling away from the example of their grandmothers. He asks what she would think of "an incident in the life of one of three daughtersofa country squire, about the year of graco 1770. One of the most beautiful girls of that day, afterwards Jane, Duohess of Gordon, undertook for a wager to ride down the High street of [Edinburgh, in broad daylight, on the back of a pig, and won her bet I"

A strange case of suicide was recently investigated at Birmingham. The deceased was an eldorly man named Wm, Bolaa, who had lived in lodgings. Ho had been very strange in his manner, and had tried to commit suicide by drinking sulphate of zinc He was given an old cane with which to book on the floor of hia bedroom in caso he required anything. .Next morning he told the son of his landlady be had swallowed a stick, and on looking )n his mouth ho saw an inch ot tho stick above the throat, He attempted to take-it out but Bolaa bit his fingers. A constable was called in, and the two between them pulled out of the man's throat a piece of oane sixteon inches in length. Bolas Baid thero was another stick inside him fifteen inches in length. The injuries to the windpipe were so serious that death soon resulted.

Judging by the following letter signed " Justly indignant" in the Napier Telegraph, there is more than a suspicion that cancerous cattle are in evidence in that part of the country :-" Sir-I road with anger and disgust the report of the Dairy Inspector. The thought of a cow in such a condition boine milked and the milk used by unsuspecting families is enough to make any man angry, In the face of what Is known as to tho causes of cancer and other diseases, to sell the milk of diseased cows is a sin and shame. Pray, Sir, why is not the dairy in question named, so that persons may bo warned ? And why waa the Inspector satisfied with being informed that tho cow was destroyed 1 ' Dostroycd I' Aye I was it also eaten t"

The following inoident is narrated by tho florae Vnmya: The telephone as a means of intimidation is certainly a novel idea. It is tho invontion of a police inspectoral Odessa. A Jew wbb one day brought into the oflice and charged with having committed a ser. ious robbory. The inspector had some difficulty in proving tho oase, and had recourse to an ingenious strategom. Ho went to tho telephone in an adjoining room, and asked the olerk at the central office, at a givon signal, to speak into the instrument, in a solemn tone:—lstno Smelianskl, you must confess the robbory; if you don't you are sure to be sentenced, and your punishment will be all tho more sevoro," Ho then sent for prisoner and questioned him again, threatening to appeal to the " machine" to get at the truth, The thief here burst into a laugh, but tho inspector held tho telephono to his ear, and ga?e the preconcerted signal, The result was as expected, Tho rogue, terrified by the warning uttered by the uncanny " machine," at once mado a olean breaßt ofit.

The Southland Times report that after the thunderstorm on Wednesday morning it was noticed during a shower that water was coining through the roof of the Supreme Courthouse into tho Judge's room and the solicitora' robing room. Mr Ashloy, contractor, was engaged to examine the roof, and on getting out upon it he saw that it had evidently been struck by lightning. One sheet of Iron had been torn m two instead of parting at the points, while over a considerable portion of the roof the nails in the iron wero quito slaok, Thero was voiy liti le discolouration, and the electrio fluid could only have grazed the roof, but unmistaken evidence of tho cause of tho damage was afforded by the fact that a sulphurous odour still clung to tho iron.

An act of literary piracy, which in America is considered smart, but deserves a much worse name, is complained of by Dr W. Hale White, a London medical author. He lately published a work entitled "Materia Medica, Pharmaoy, and Therapeutics," not copyrighting it In tho United States. An American edition has appeared, so altered as to make the writer recommend a certain mineral water, which Bomcone in the States has an interest in selling. There are other respeots in whioh the text has been added to, and all tho inserted statements are made to appear as if they were by the London author,

Certain scientific men claim to have discovered that the memory is stronger in Bummer than in winter, Too muoh food, too much physioal exercise, and too much education; they'assort, are the worst foes of the memory, Have~you\een the new Bainproof "Im pervanas" Dress Serges now showing at Te Aro House, Wellington ? The "Impervanas" Dress Serges are in all colors, principally Navy Blue, are fast dye and guaranteed rainproof, Only to be had at Te Aro House, Wellington, "All the rage" describes tho popularity of tho" Impervanas" Dress Serges, They arc invaluable for country wear and wet weather. Every lady should havo a dres?, Send to Te Aro House for patterns, "Like-water off aduck'B back" describes tboir wonderful quality. No one need now fear the heaviest shower'of rain while wearing a dross of the impervious "Impervanas" Serge. Procurable only at Te AroHouso, Wellington,

Severe colds and doctors' bills aro both avoided by the uso of" Impervanas" Serges as dress fabrics for the winter, Samples post free from the Te Aro Home, Welling, toni

"Impervanas" Serges will not spot, will notshrink, are notaffected by sea water, and are mado of tho best New Zealand wools. Write for patterns to the sole agent, James 1 Smith, Te Aro House] Welling I

; Archbishop Redwood will opon the Oatholio Bazaar at tho Theatre Koya!, Masterton, oa Wednesday next. His Grace is'expeotsd to reach Masterton tomorrow. •

Mean' Lowes and lorna add to their entries for their Masterton Stock b'alo for Wednesday, March 22nd, 600 2 and 4tooth wethers, 1000 lambs, 800 full mouth crossbred owes, 300 2 and 4-tooth ewes, and 30 Romney and Lincoln rams,

A man named Robert Cowie, a-receut arrival from the Wairarapa, while on his way to Flaxbourue on Friday net with a painful accident, About a mile this side of Mr Avory'a Accommodation Housa his horse shied from some unknown cause, nearly upsetting tho sulky which he was driving. Uufortunatoly Oowie's arm collided with a telegraph post and was broke in two places. The Bufferer was brought into town and treated by Dr Nairn.—Marlborough Express. The late bad weather and interruption of the railway traffio has disorganised many things and upset arrangements all round. To-night the Truda Bros' Grand Concert Company should have opened in Masterton, but they are unable to get through, and tho sterling entertainment is accordingly postponed until next Monday. This, of conrae, moana alarge extra expense and considerable lots to tho Company, but it is unavoidable as the Theatre will not be disengaged until the 20th inst, Wo trust the publio will bear this in mind and repay tho Trudn Bros' by according them a bumper house on Monday next as a retnrn in some measure for their lobs.

An unusually largo number of acceptances have peen received by tho Masterton OpakijJookeyOlubfor ltsSt Patriok's Day Meeting, which should prove a very interesting one indeed.

We are sorry to learn that Mr Burton Boys, who has been on the commission for twonty-six years, has resigned his J.P. ship, and that his resignation has been accepted by tho Government. In the public interests both the resignation and the acceptance of it are to be regrettod. •

It is stated that a syndicate has been formed to purchase the patent rights to Langstone's Sheep Dip, which will bo sold by Mr F. H, Wood by order of the Official Assignee on Monday. March 20th.

A burning flue In tho West Ward caused the fireballs to ring out an alarm on Saturday evening.

It is understood tnat the Primate intends to send Mb written resignation in time to permit tho Synod olecting his successor during May or June. The Works and Finance Committee of tho Masterton Borough Oouncil moots tonight.

The monthly meeting of tho Masterton Hospital Trustees will bo held to-morrow (Tuesday), tho 14th inßt at 3,30 pan. in the Council Chambers.

Mr William Lonz, of Kuripuni, notifies that he is a buyer of beeßwas in any quantity. Mr Ay. Vile will run his coach from Masteiton to Manrioevill daily during the interruptloh of ths train service,

Tho work of decorating the Theatre Eoyal for tho forthcoming Fancy Bazaar is now Mm; proceeded with.

Launcesten has been scratched for tho Easter and Autumn Handicap at the 0.J.0 Meeting,

Mr J. L. Murray, who was a passenger from Tenui by coach on Saturday, informs us that Mrs O'Connor, of tho Taueru road, was very kind to the lady passengers.

Mr William Skeet of Qreytown, died from the effects of a paralytic stroke which he received while Bitting with his family at ten o'olook on Friday evening. Ho only lived tiro hours afterwards. Practises for the May-pole dance, in connection with the Fancy Bazaar, will be held at tho Theatro Royal, this afternoon and to-morrow (Tuesday) at i p.m.

The Mutual Life Association advortiso offices to-let in Queen Street. Mr D, Crowe adds to his Eketahuna Stock Sale fat sheep and a number of hacks. The sale takos placo on Thursday the Kith at 1 o'clock. It has been discovered that the Statute Book contains an Act passed in tho reign of Georgo 11. "for the supproßiion of profanity,'! and it was put In forco against a labourer in London on Wednesday, Deo. 29. A labourer named ■\Vhebeck or Wayback uttered four oaths in a public street, and was ordered to pay a shilling an oath and thirteen shillings costs, Thejpenaltlcs of the Act are imposed according to tho sooial condition of the offender. One shilling for labourer, two shillings above that degree and below a gentleman, and fiveshillings per oath when spoken by anyouoabovothe degree of a gentleman. The ofFonoo is punishable whether commitod in the street or in the offender's own home.

At Bendigo, Victoria, a poouliar CBse was heard rccontly, and opened tho question of what iB profane language 1 A Freathought lecturer was charged at the instance of the Borough Counoil, with using profano words. Br Quick on behalf of the defendant, argued that his olient had not used the words" Alhiighty Yahoo " in their biblical sense, and tho defoudank produced a book showing that tho word "Yahoo" was tho Hebrew name for Jehovah. He said that ho did not use the words in tho vulgar, con. temptuous sonso in which thoy had been used by Dean Swift, Tho Police Magistrate said that he would accept the explanation offered by the defendant's counsel, Although ho considered tho words profano ho did not think that they camo within tho meaning of the Polico Offences Act, which referred to profane swearing and cursing. The case was dismissed.

j Sitting on tho right of tho Princo of I Wales at a dinner given by Lord CarringI ton in England, a few months ago, Sir George Dibbs was asked by His Royal | Highness "whether ho noticed any i chango in the physique of the women of [ England." Sir George admitted that ho , had noticed a change; the womon, ho , (thought, had improved in physique, and | were taller and better developed than ! their Australian cousins. "Howcanyou , account for that?" the Prince' askod; I " because we have noticed it n. good deal . within the last ten or twelve years" I "It's easily accounted tor," tho Premier replied. "If you just think bsok one moment you'll remember that it's only the last ten or twelve years that Aus« tralian mutton has been obtainable so much in England," Tho Prince accepted this as a feasiblo explanation, and declared that henceforth ho would invariably use Australian mutton This (says tho Sydney Daily Telegraph) Is a well authenticated story, for it was told by Sir George Dibbs, at the gathering at the Pastoral and Finance ABtociation'swarehouse. ' :